December 2011
2 posts
Watchbradicalmang:
Reading the Riots: ‘It was a war, and we had the police scared’
Rioters speak for the first time about why they took part in the summer 2011 disturbances, the most serious bout of civil unrest in Britain in a generation. Paul Lewis presents the findings of a Guardian and London School of Economics study that reveals how the riots were sparked by poverty, injustice and a...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-12-4) →
Pavement (40)
Tinariwen (25)
LOVE, PEACE & POETRY (12)
Franco (11)
Dara Puspita (10)
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November 2011
5 posts
“They say, “I love Bessie Smith.” And don’t even understand...”
– Clay, from Amiri Baraka’s Dutchman (1964)
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Fred Moten: Black Optimism / Black Operation →
There is a voraciously instrumental anti-essentialism, powered in an intense and terrible way by good intentions, that is the intellectual platform from which black studies’ disavowal of its object and aim is launched, even when that disavowal comes in something which also thinks itself to be moving in the direction of that object and aim. I’m trying to move by way of a kind of resistance to...
Critical Ethnic Studies Association →
CRITICAL ETHNIC STUDIES II: Settler Colonialism/Heteropatriarchy/White Supremacy Social Transformation and the Academic Industrial Complex Another Major Conference! (Yes) To Be Held at the University of Illinois-Chicago, September 19-21, 2013 (not 2012) Confirmed speakers (more to come!)
Taiaiake Alfred, University of Victoria
Robin D.G. Kelley, University of Southern California
Vijay...
October 2011
7 posts
live helicopter feed over occupy oakland →
Thursday Oct 20, 7PM : Race in 21st Century... →
Any Tumblr pals coming into Baltimore for this year’s ASA? Please come check out this panel organized by folks from the local activist community. And if you can, kick in a few bucks to help local prison abolition efforts:
A panel discussion at the 2640 space (2640 St. Paul), featuring:
Andrea Smith
Lisa Nakamura
Ruth Gilmore
Fred Moten
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
David...
Kenyon Farrow: "Remarks at Troy Davis Memorial in... →
[W]hile we mourn his death and all of the things it raises for us―racism, the death penalty, the prison industrial complex, police brutality, the historic trauma of lynchings, etc., I want us to move beyond discourses of innocence, for while it may make us feel more righteous in our defense of Troy Davis, and the many like him who have been executed or who currently languish inside prison walls,...
September 2011
2 posts
“America had to wait until 9/11...for many white... →
Cornel West, Harvard Law, 10/3/02
Remembering Attica, 40 years Later →
[S]ince the days of Attica, the US prison population has increased more than sixfold. We have become the world’s first prison state, with nearly 70% of prisoners coming from the nation’s brown and black one quarter. Imprisonment has become more and more the fate of the lowest income blacks as well. A college educated black man today stands one third the chance of incarceration he did...
August 2011
13 posts
Walter Johnson, "On Agency" Journal of Social... →
I suppose what I am suggesting is that the present has changed and with it have the implications of our form of address to the past. While I certainly do not want to argue that chimeric promises of Official Academic Multiculturalism have solved the problems of white overprivilege and Black disadvantage, I think that it is fair to say that the political stakes of white alignment with the cause of...
Study: Income does not explain segregation... →
rivlings:
Washington Post
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-8-14) →
Eugene McDaniels (30)
Fela Kuti (10)
Margo Guryan (9)
Roc Marciano (8)
Gangrene (7)
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Was definitely expecting more ape-on-cop murder from Rise of the Planet of the Apes. Also, the San Fran of this movie may be the least militarized California city committed to film in the last 40 years.
'London rioters resent media image of hooded teen... →
A reminder from London that Cameron, The BBC, and bourgeois liberals don’t get to define community and ethical community practice.
“This was not kids. This was youths and adults coming together against the crap that’s been going on since the coalition,” [Jackie] said, referring to Britain’s conservative-led government, which has made deep austerity cuts since...
Linton Kwesi Johnson, “Man Free (for Darcus...
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“we broke into the liquor store, drank the Jack Daniels and threw the bottles at...”
– London, 8/7/11
Panic on the streets of London →
Violence is rarely mindless. The politics of a burning building, a smashed-in shop or a young man shot by police may be obscured even to those who lit the rags or fired the gun, but the politics are there. Unquestionably there is far, far more to these riots than the death of Mark Duggan, whose shooting sparked off the unrest on Saturday, when two police cars were set alight after a five-hour...
July 2011
5 posts
“No Dad at Home:” James Harrison, Colin Cowherd... →
Whether in popular culture or in the news, during sports telecasts or talk radio, black fatherhood and motherhood are ubiquitously cited as the cause of (national) problems or as an issue that young black males have to overcome. Cowherd falls suit, blaming the bogeyman and woman – absent black fathers and ineffective black mothers – for the problems facing the NFL, all while celebrating the...
“My understanding of queer is a term that desires that you don’t have to present...”
– Judith Butler, The Desire for Philosophy: An Interview with Judith Butler (via fuckyeahfemmes)
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June 2011
2 posts
“What if the thing whose meaning or value has never been found finds things,...”
– Fred Moten, “The Case of Blackness,” Criticism, Vol 50 (2), Spring 2008
Maybe my favorite bit of feedback from Spring...
i really like the instructor. he seems to really be passionate about the subject, and very knowledgeable. i can see this class being great for someone who’s really into history and social movements, but i’m not. i just took it for my social history core. the lectures and readings are thoughtfully planned, and i’m sure if you wanted to you could learn a lot from this class.
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May 2011
20 posts
youlikemealready:
“If somebody told me I only had an hour to live, I’d spend it choking a white man. I’d do it nice and slow.”
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— Miles Davis, friends, who’s 85th birthday would’ve been today.
Reminds me of Clay’s monologue from Dutchman: ”If Bessie Smith had killed some white people she wouldn’t have needed that music. She could have talked very straight...
How Cornel West Did the Obamites a Favor →
Unable to mount a coherent defense of Obama’s policy decisions, especially after the his further, dramatic lurch to the right following last year’s midterm elections, Obama’s unrepentant Black politicos seethed in relative silence. It had become impossible to speak in policy terms without indicting the presidential icon. Cornel West’s foray into Obamanalysis gave them the opportunity to...
Plenary Videos from Critical Ethnic Studies and... →
lowendtheory:
criticalethnicstudies:
Thursday Plenary: J. Jack Halberstam, Denise da Silva, Sarita See, Waziyatawin
Friday AM Plenary: Andrea Smith, Dean Spade, Cheryl Harris, Glen Coulthard, Ruth Wilson Gilmore.
Friday PM Plenary: Keith Camacho, Gayatri Gopinath, Roderick Ferguson, José Esteban Muñoz, Nadine Naber, Cathy Cohen
Saturday AM Plenary: Neferti Tadiar, Vicente Diaz, Nikhil...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-5-15) →
The Weeknd (37)
Twin Shadow (15)
The Hold Steady (11)
Sixto Rodriguez (1)
Numero 6 (1)
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GOP Stir Up Jim Crow Legacies →
robot-heart-politics:
vruz:liberalsarecool:corruptpolitics:
Republican presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich is now comparing the 2012 election to the 1860 race, and calling President Obama “the most successful food stamp president in modern American history.” Ta-Nehisi Coates takes note of the not-so-subtle dog whistle.
Matt Yglesias goes a step further, noting another line from the same...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-5-8) →
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth (44)
Grand Puba (21)
Tyler, The Creator (20)
Frank Ocean (16)
Brand Nubian (2)
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Get On The Bus: 50 Years Of 'Freedom Rides' : NPR →
likethedew:
May 4, 2011, marks the 50th anniversary of the first Freedom Ride. To commemorate the occasion Fresh Air is replaying interviews with civil rights activist James Farmer Jr., one of the organizers of the 1961 Freedom Ride, and historian Raymond Arsenault.”
"Republican lawmakers that vilify Planned... →
“This is bin Laden’s lamentable victory: He has changed America’s psyche from one...”
– David Sirota (via azspot)
I think David Siorta is a bit mistaken about the origins America’s relationship to bloodshed.